ZEN KOANS
Beverly's interest in Chinese and Japanese Literature including Zen koans led her to attempt to illustrate them using pastels on paper. Koans are paradoxical statements used to unravel poetic truths. She develops images to illustrate these insights.
Lightning:
Heron cry stabs the darkness.
Basho
In the Spring beyond Time the Withered
Tree Flowers.
Yellow nightingales
Perching in a Tree.
A Flower Decked Bough.
Who can Leap the World's ties and Sit with Me among the Clouds ?
Gary Snyder translating Han shan
How does the Mountain Finch know the Wild Swan's Aspiring ?
What is Life?
It is the Flash of a Firefly
in the Night.
Crowsfoot
The Swaying Bamboos
Keep Resonating.
Dogen
The Toll of a Sudden Bell
The World ? Moonlit Drops Shaken from a Cranes Bill.
Dogen
The Morning Glory!
It has taken the Well Bucket and I must Look Elsewhere for Water.
Chizono
Slowly Consumed like Fire
Down a candle.
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are.
Lyrics by Sting
